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Mediation on teachers contract signals defeat on needed reforms

  March 31, 2012

The decision by the Boston schools and Boston Teachers Union to declare an impasse in their nearly two-year-long contract negotiations and have the state to appoint a mediator is an acknowledgment of defeat. Negotiators should by all means keep plodding toward an agreement, but no one should expect any groundbreaking reforms. Rather, the school department should look elsewhere - to nonprofit groups outside the union - to provide desperately needed enrichment.

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